Posted on 02/23/2018 5:42:39 PM PST by Saint X
Photographer Joe Rosenthal admitted that when he took a shot of five Marines and one Navy corpsman raising the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima’s Mt. Suribachi on Feb. 23, 1945, he had no idea that he had captured something extraordinary. He was setting up for a different shot when he spotted the group of men planting the flag and quickly took a snap without even looking through the viewfinder. The chance photo would become iconic overnight and go on to win the Pulitzer Prize.
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I agree parodied is humorous, satire, ridicule. Pastiche is a better word for it. Often used in reverence.
Kerry is the one with the Special Ops hat. Warren was the code talker.
More likely, Warren was the "code" sucker...
Having made a living as a sports action photographer I will tell you that taking photos like that are almost pure instinct. You mind sees it and your finger moves before you even realize your have snapped the shutter.
He made taking the image sound so non-chalant but it a testament to high level of skill.
It was...
...Helen Thomas.
Ok.
MAYBE a poor choice of word on my part. Staged is a little harsh.
Coincidentally, the Second picture was very similar to the first and I admit there was only so much room to work in.
But, Lou Lowery deserves/deserved as much credit as the ‘reporter’ got.
Harold Shultz was one whose mother identified him from his back side. the other was Ira Hays who didn’t want to be identified and wouldn’t say it was Shultz.
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5230/5832867313_70437c1b4d_b.jpg
Looking at that picture it looks like a bunch of grunts just doing what it takes to get the job done.
I thought they all were Brian Williams.
I am not trying to start a ‘food fight’ here but I interpret that picture to be the ‘closest’ flag being taken down to allow the LARGER one to fly.
Note how the guys by the flag appear to be trying to grab it before it hits the ground. (Oh..you said that..<: <:)
Here is a bunch of them... from googling Lou Lowery
My late father-in-law, US Army, 75th JASCO, saw the flags flying from his regroupment base camp down the hill near the Marine Cemetery. I think he was recovering from wounds at the time.
LOL!!!!
i have never seen in parodied either, that I can recall.
I’m not saying it hasn’t been, but it’s hardly known for being frequently parodied.
Off the top of my head I’d say the Mona Lisa and Grant Wood’s American Gothic have been parodied a whole lot more.
I thought that Marines name was Harlan Block?
No, one was Barack Obama and one was Joe Biden.
I have seen it parodied dozens of times. Sometimes respectfully. Sometimes disrespectfully.
I think it is a shame how there was a campaign to discredit Joe Rosenthal by saying he staged the photo. He didn’t. But even if he had, it would have been a great staged photo.
Ira Hayes sure wasn’t the first veteran to find out two things: for some people, coming home is hard, and being a celebrity just makes it harder.
And he certainly wasn’t the first man to drink himself to death because of it.
I think Joe Rosenthal was just lucky. (though it is often true that hard work and skill can make someone “luckier”) If he had snapped a second or two earlier or later, the photo would not have had the dynamics imbued into it the way it does.
It LOOKS like motion. It’s beautiful and striking.
If I recall correctly, the guy who developed it for Rosenthal called someone else over when he saw the image appear and knew instantly it was special and said something like “Hey! Look at this one!” They also cropped it (which improved it even more) before they sent it out.
Pretty amazing picture.
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